palinodic

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In ancient prosody, consisting of four systems, of which the first and fourth are metrically equivalent and the second and third are also metrical equivalents; inserting between a strophe and its antistrophe a strophe and antistrophe of metrically different form (scheme: a b b′ a′ ); pertaining to or characteristic of such an arrangement: as, a palinodic pericope; the palinodic form of composition. See epodic, mesodic, periodic, proodic.